Day 2

Today was pretty calm. We discovered the egg lady at the breakfast buffet. She's the Vietnamese equivalent of the omelette guy at Market Central. I think I'll be getting fried eggs for breakfast every morning from here on out. We had a business class at UEF, which was interesting. He lectured on the tax reform taking place in Vietnam. It was a little hard to pay attention because 1) I was exhausted and 2) There was kind of a little language barrier....but after that class, we had our daily language class which is just hilarious. The professor is so nice and patient. Plus, the language is kind of funny when you're learning all the different tones, so it's just a good time. We laughed a lot today, everything seemed funny, which I am blaming on our exhaustion.

After classes, we had a little mishap in an elevator (kind of got stuck for a few minutes...we were a few people over the weight limit, but we got saved so it's ok), and then did our first site visit at Glass Egg Digital Media. I was really impressed by this company. They are a software developer. Basically, they make the picture you see in video games. So for example, today everyone was working on the cars for some sort of racing game. It was all very complex and the artists must all be so skilled in order to do that job. I liked going there a lot because it was so different from what I expected. The CEO and CFO also had a lot of interesting comments to make about the economy and Vietnam as a whole, as well. (http://www.glassegg.com/)